OUR MISSION

To enable people and processes to become better tomorrow than today!

OUR VALUES

• Cultivate partnerships
• Catalyze people
• Commit to honor God

Our mission and values serve as an organizing principle for our company. They were developed in an attempt to fulfill a key responsibility of leadership, to provide deeper meaning to work. We embrace our values as a means to accomplish our mission, which reminds us that the journey is as important as the destination. Upholding these values doesn’t guarantee success but ignoring them ensures failure. Allow us to expound on these values…

Cultivate partnerships – with customers and co-workers, this includes suppliers. We look to the ancient Athenian model of citizenship for further explanation. As an Athenian citizen you owed the community your best effort; the community, in return, owed you every opportunity to fulfill your potential. At GPS, our commitment to people is to provide the chance to steer your own destiny, the opportunity to gain the sincere respect of your peers, and an honest stake in making your company more successful through your own work and ideas. The expectation, and inevitable reward, is to foster the long-term loyalty of customers, and co-workers, thus cultivating partnerships.

Catalyze people – to achieve excellence. In order for our mission to truly bring deeper meaning to work, we must link the performance of tasks to the development of people. Any task can be seen as either drudgery or self-expression. A given job, no matter how mundane, is not determinative. The difference is to be found within people who seek meaning for life and work, who desire to accomplish something significant. People who see a rewarding purpose and a genuine opportunity beyond the specific task at hand bring creativity, productivity, quality, and value to any job. This is not meant to imply that everything we do will be right. We’ll experience our share of mistakes. But because we embrace this value to be a catalyst of excellence, we can’t hide from those mistakes. We will confront them, correct them, learn from them, and most likely, forgive them – providing our values are upheld.

Commit to honor God – in all we do. Last but not least, as there can be no logical order or priority to these values, is to commit to honor God in all we do. This does not serve as a basis for exclusion. Rather, as a means to recognize and welcome diversity. We are all part of God’s mix in whatever way and whether or not we choose to worship. Embracing this value necessitates honesty, integrity, and respect for people in all our actions, and is essential to the success of our mission and our company.